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What is Juniper SRX?

Juniper SRX is a firewall offering. It provides a variety of modular features, scaled for enterprise-level use, based on a 3-in-1 OS that enables routing, switching, and security in each product.

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Juniper SRX stands tall for Service Provider Networks.

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 10, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Juniper SRX is used as Network Firewall, which is responsible for securing the workload behind it. It addresses Network Security within the organization, limits the access of ...
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Engineer
Juniper SRX5 years of experience

SRX: A very versitile Router/Firewall Box

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 30, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The Juniper SRX is a very capable firewall & router. It is a versatile appliance that can fit into many designs, it can be placed as an Internet GW, as a DC firewall, as a...
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Amr Momtaz
Consultant - Information Technology
Cloud Migration Architect
IBM
Juniper SRX2 years of experience

Juniper SRX. A Swiss army knife for routing and security.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 27, 2020
IncentivizedVetted Review
The Juniper platform is one of our core devices for customers through our partner. They have the ability to work in almost any situation we put them into. From basic edge rout...
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Eric Stephenson
Engineer - Information Technology
Staff System Engineer
CommScope
Juniper SRX4 years of experience

Juniper SRXs are the shizzle!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 31, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
in 2014, our organization did a wholesale forklift of our older network equipment and replaced ALL of it with Juniper gear. We use SRX routers/firewalls/IDP and EX & QFX s...
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Engineer
Juniper SRX5 years of experience

Juniper SRX: When you don't have time to play around!

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 13, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use the Juniper SRX platform to connect two buildings with metro ethernet between two buildings, including link failover, provide high reliability between sites. Our carrie...
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Bear Golightly
Professional - Information Technology
IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager
Nashville Wraps
Juniper SRX3 years of experience
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What is Juniper SRX?

Juniper SRX is a firewall offering. It provides a variety of modular features, scaled for enterprise-level use, based on a 3-in-1 OS that enables routing, switching, and security in each product.

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Product Details

What is Juniper SRX?

Juniper SRX is a firewall and web security gateway. It can be deployed on-premises, as well as virtually for smaller use cases, and is optimized for enterprise-level use. Each of the SRX line are based on the Junos OS, which enables three-in-one routing, switching, and security. The features of a given product in the line are purpose-built to the scope of the business needs. These features start with base next-generation firewall (NGFW) and Unified Threat Management (UTM) capabilities. From there, the offerings scale up to include additional scalability and customizability, as well as Advanced Threat Protection and SSL inspection.

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Juniper SRX is a firewall offering. It provides a variety of modular features, scaled for enterprise-level use, based on a 3-in-1 OS that enables routing, switching, and security in each product.

Reviewers rate Policy-based Controls and VPN and High Availability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Juniper SRX are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Juniper SRX: When you don't have time to play around!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 13, 2020
BG
Bear Golightly
IT Operations Manager / IT Service Manager
Nashville Wraps (Wholesale, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Juniper SRX
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use the Juniper SRX platform to connect two buildings with metro ethernet between two buildings, including link failover, provide high reliability between sites. Our carriers drop LACP frames and most other layer-2 uplink aggregation protocols, so we used specific features on the Juniper SRX platform to implement connectivity testing on each end, with automatic route injection on failover.
Pros
  • The Juniper SRX platform is easy to set up (out of the box).
  • The support team responds to tickets quickly and with good solutions.
Cons
  • My only real criticism of the product is that it's hard to figure out how to upgrade the firmware from the CLI via TFTP via the docs, but it works great once you get it sorted.
Likelihood to Recommend
I don't know much about the rest of the line, but if you require a primary branch-grade router with sub-gig throughput and some enterprisey software features, or you need an actual branch router for an office branch, the Juniper SRX is a solid choice. The out-of-box web GUI setup is pretty easy if you choose to set it up as a "real" router, but you can ignore the GUI entirely and configure layer 2/3 ports all you want with a robust CLI.
Juniper SRX Feature Ratings
Firewall (11)
21.818181818181817%
2.2
Identification Technologies
N/A
N/A
Visualization Tools
N/A
N/A
Content Inspection
N/A
N/A
Policy-based Controls
N/A
N/A
Active Directory and LDAP
N/A
N/A
Firewall Management Console
80%
8.0
Reporting and Logging
80%
8.0
VPN
N/A
N/A
High Availability
80%
8.0
Stateful Inspection
N/A
N/A
Proxy Server
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • A loss of a single metro ethernet carrier link between buildings is no longer a problem - a warehouse filled with idle pickers is expensive!
  • Using single-purpose Juniper SRX devices on each end provides reliable connectivity independent of SDWAN or any other integrated devices, which helps avoid annoying finger-pointing
Support Rating
8
I have contacted support twice, once for licensing and again for help figuring out how to achieve what I want. The licensing issue was solved immediately, and the technician provided links to documentation on the specific feature I needed to implement, and I had it resolved within an hour.
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SRX: A very versitile Router/Firewall Box

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 30, 2021
AM
Amr Momtaz
Cloud Migration Architect
IBM (Computer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Juniper SRX
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Juniper SRX is a very capable firewall & router. It is a versatile appliance that can fit into many designs, it can be placed as an Internet GW, as a DC firewall, as a DMZ Firewall, as a North-South Firewall & Router, as an edge router/firewall. It mainly addresses the need for a L3 feature rich device (VRFs, BGP, GRE...) as well as security features (Security, IPSEC, IPS, URL Filtering, ...).

The combination of routing instances, support for multiple tunneling (Route Based IPSEC, Policy Based IPSEC, GRE, ...) with the advanced BGP features makes the vSRX perfect for an edge device in your DC or Cloud design.

The boxes can be physical or virtual and support active/standby configuration for high availability config.
Pros
  • Edge Device (Tunneling & Routing)
  • Routing Instances
  • Zone Based Firewall
  • L3 Gateway/Vlan termination
  • DHCP Server & DHCP Relay
  • Good support community & Good available documentation
  • Good support by the Vendor
Cons
  • The GUI is pretty basic and need some enhancements
Likelihood to Recommend
Juniper vSRX is an excellent edge gateway device. The combination of Tunneling protocols supported and the advanced routing & security features makes it perfect for this kind of deployment. It is available in physical, virtual appliances as well as support on multiple clouds so you can have the same box be your edge gateway in multiple environments for consistency.

It can also work as a Internet Gateway, DMZ Firewall/Router and it would function just fine.

While it can also work as a DC firewall (North-South), the poor GUI will make it harder in the day to day administration for the multiple policies in a DC.
Most Important Features
  • Edge Device/Tunnel Termination
  • Routing (eBGP)
  • Zone Based Firewall
  • L3 Gateway
  • DHCP Server/Relay
Juniper SRX Feature Ratings
Firewall (11)
70.9090909090909%
7.1
Identification Technologies
60%
6.0
Visualization Tools
50%
5.0
Content Inspection
70%
7.0
Policy-based Controls
70%
7.0
Active Directory and LDAP
70%
7.0
Firewall Management Console
50%
5.0
Reporting and Logging
70%
7.0
VPN
90%
9.0
High Availability
90%
9.0
Stateful Inspection
90%
9.0
Proxy Server
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • Solid Return of investment as an edge gateway appliance
  • Very versatile appliance that supports multiple deployment scenarios and configuration. one ha/pair can serve multiple functions using Routing Instances.
  • Great support by the vendor, community and online resources
  • it is not hard to find people with Juniper experience and there is training courses and resources that can help anyone with networking experience pick it up and be able to administrate and configure the box.
Alternatives Considered
The juniper is very versatile router/firewall box. it is an excellent router/edge device with zone based firewall.

The PaloAlto and the Fortinet have better GUIs and similar firewall featureset but they are not as flexible routers.

The Cisco CSR1kv is the only box that I would rank similar or higher to the Juniper SRX as it is as versatile as a router and supports the same security feature-set as the Juniper but it has better support and Cisco IOS is more widely adopted by the industry.
Other Software Used
VMware NSX, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware HCX (CloudVelox), Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V)

Juniper SRXs are the shizzle!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 31, 2020
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Juniper SRX
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
in 2014, our organization did a wholesale forklift of our older network equipment and replaced ALL of it with Juniper gear. We use SRX routers/firewalls/IDP and EX & QFX switches. The smaller SRX-220s are in our 17 branch locations with larger SRX-550s in our 3 data center locations. They are all tied together across a telco's MPLS circuitry and also connected to the Internet to 3rd party partners. Juniper network equipment comprises our entire infrastructure - it has proven to be very reliable and effective, plus has a great ROI, especially when compared to the top networking equipment companies.
Pros
  • One JUNOS is the Juniper mantra, including for the SRXs. While not entirely true, it comes close enough that if you learn some SRX configuration tricks, they will likely work across all of your SRXs.
  • Out of the box, with no additional license required, you have a NextGen firewall, by default. You can turn off the firewall and have just a plain ole router.
Cons
  • Technical support is often lacking. By that, I mean that Tier 1 support frequently has to escalate to the next group. I find that most of my support calls don't get resolved until I hit about Tier 3. Plus it takes minimum of 3 days with medium priority issues.
  • Automation is very flexible, but because there are so many options, it would great to have a road map to perform the most frequent automation tasks.
Likelihood to Recommend
SRXs seem to be well suited at the enterprise level for plain routers, firewalls, and IDP/IDS. They work well on MPLS and Ethernet, including Internet. I have 3 SRXs also performing edge duty, with 2 in a high availability (HA) cluster. The Juniper line of SRXs provides a good range of scaling from small business to extremely large enterprise. Wire speed is a common comparison factor and Juniper shines in that area.
Juniper SRX Feature Ratings
Firewall (10)
98%
9.8
Visualization Tools
80%
8.0
Content Inspection
100%
10.0
Policy-based Controls
100%
10.0
Active Directory and LDAP
100%
10.0
Firewall Management Console
100%
10.0
Reporting and Logging
100%
10.0
VPN
100%
10.0
High Availability
100%
10.0
Stateful Inspection
100%
10.0
Proxy Server
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Annual capital savings on infrastructure equipment about $500,000.
  • Data Center switches function (and are managed) as a single virtual chassis, reducing maintenance and troubleshooting time.
Alternatives Considered
Equipment prices ran about the same. Performance and management were also more or less equal. The biggest deciding factors for going with Juniper were (1) fewer security incidents related to SRX firewalls and (2) technical support costs were significantly less.
Support Rating
5
This is the one area where I have a beef with Juniper. When I called into Cisco TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I spoke with was able to resolve my issue. With Juniper TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I speak with is not able to resolve my issue, seems to almost be reading from a script, and must escalate my ticket. All of which takes time.
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Juniper SRX stands tall for Service Provider Networks.

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 10, 2023
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Juniper SRX
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Juniper SRX is used as Network Firewall, which is responsible for securing the workload behind it. It addresses Network Security within the organization, limits the access of the organization's internal network, and secures the enterprise network from threats and from malicious users. Juniper SRX also helped send the traffic to the Internet with the help of Network Address Translation.
Pros
  • Network Address Translation.
  • Securing the Enterprise Workload.
  • Enterprise VPN Connectivity.
Cons
  • Antivirus Features can be more advanced.
  • Antispam Filtering features have room for improvement.
  • Cloud Capabilities.
Likelihood to Recommend
Juniper SRX is well suited for a Service Provider Environment where a high volume of traffic has to pass through the firewall; SRX handles that really well. SRX Network Address Translation (NAT) capabilities are very seamless. SRX also does pretty well in supporting VPN architecture. SRX is less suitable for a typical enterprise environment where multiple capabilities are needed in a single product.
Most Important Features
  • IPSec VPN.
  • Network Address Translation.
  • Security Policies.
Juniper SRX Feature Ratings
Firewall (11)
87.27272727272727%
8.7
Identification Technologies
90%
9.0
Visualization Tools
70%
7.0
Content Inspection
80%
8.0
Policy-based Controls
100%
10.0
Active Directory and LDAP
80%
8.0
Firewall Management Console
70%
7.0
Reporting and Logging
80%
8.0
VPN
100%
10.0
High Availability
100%
10.0
Stateful Inspection
100%
10.0
Proxy Server
90%
9.0
Return on Investment
  • It really helped secure a big service provider environment.
  • It handles the traffic pretty well.
  • It helps in the seamless implementation of Firewall policies.
Alternatives Considered
Juniper SRX stands tall compared to all these products for Large Service Provider Networks, where traffic volume is larger. Also, cost comparison with SRX's few other products can also be another contributing factor while selecting this. As well as Juniper Routers, Switches, and multiple products from the same vendor to maintain one single vendor environment. As well as Juniper Support is also really good.
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Users and Roles
Most of the teams are the application teams, hosting their application environment on prem, and connects via Juniper SRX to external partners or toward the internet. These application team also securing their environment via Juniper SRX firewall.
Networking team is the admin team who manages the firewall.
Support Headcount Required
4
Network Security skills are required for supporting the Juniper SRX. Day to day work is manage the firewall faults, as well as changes in firewall configuration as per the application requirement, such as to allow to deny the traffic.
Business Processes Supported
  • Securing the applications.
  • Establishing the connectivity with partner networks.
  • On Prem to Cloud Connectivity.
Innovative Uses
  • SRX is being used to handle of lot of NAT connections, instead of using the dedicated NATing devices.
  • SRX is used as external point for any Internet traffic to hit the Internal network.
Future Planned Uses
  • Enabling the features such as making it as the proxy server.
  • Utilizing the Decryption capabilities.
Likelihood to Renew
8

New to Junos and loving it.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 15, 2016
RB
Robert Beck
Network Engineer
FireEye, Inc (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Juniper SRX
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use the Juniper SRX series FWs as our edge firewalls, core FWs and VPN P2P peers. We use these in our dept, other dept and divisions make their own decisions on products and vendors to suit their specific needs. The SRX provides us the security we require at a price point much better than other options. Once the learning curve is leveled out, the easy of use for making changes or undoing changes is far greater than other manufactures methods. In a 24/7/365 environment, it's critical that changes be made in a timely manner with minimum errors, Junos provides a great way to validate the change and an automated rollback if any unintended outcomes occur.
Pros
  • The Junos OS provides engineers the ability to review past changes and see who made the change which can be a huge advantage when troubleshooting issues that recently manifested themselves in a network. Not all issues pop up right away, so this is a great tool to see how the environment has changed in the recent past.
  • Junos uses a 2 config process to make changes and put into operation, a operational config and a proposed config called a candidate config. This allows engineers making changes to see the entire proposed changes and confirm its accuracy prior to implementing.
  • Configuration changes can be done in several different methods. Once you get comfortable with each, making quick changes can done easily and validated prior to committing to operation.
Cons
  • There's not a lot about the SRX that I don't like but if I had to say, I'd say the remote access VPN and associated client app needs improvement and by using a 3rd party as the client app provider this made troubleshooting RA issues much more difficult. For this reason, we do not use the SRX for RA VPNs.
Likelihood to Recommend
The Juniper SRX is a great product for almost any deployment, the form factor, the price point, the power and ease of use make it an all purpose FW for any situation.
Return on Investment
  • Although I'm not a part of the budgeting process, I do know that by using Juniper SRXs, we were able to get the products we needed with much less issues and justifications as other product we've purchased in the past.
Alternatives Considered
I love the Cisco ASA but I've become used to the SRX. I am a CLI kind of guy so the SRX works for me. Others may be more GUI based so the ASA may be more comfortable to you. If that's the case then the ASA's ASDM is a solid platform to manage your FW. Junos hasn't gotten this component working and will admit that, but if you're CLI driven, then the SRX is much easier to use and has a lot better context sensitive help in most situations.
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